Industrialisation and Development
What is Industrialisation? Industrialisation is where a country moves from an economy dominated by agricultural output and employment to one […]
Industrialisation and urbanisation
Dependency Theory
Aid, trade and debt
Criticisms of Official Development Aid
Official Development Aid is aid from governments, which can take the form of either bilateral aid – direct from donor
Aid, trade and debt, Global Development
Four reasons why free trade doesn’t promote development
Dependency theorists argue poor countries are often dependent on low value primary products for export, which the West then adds value to!
Global Development, Theories of development
The New Rulers of the World – A Summary
The New Rulers of the World (2001) by John Pilger provides a good example of a Dependency Theory analysis of the
Global Development, Theories of development
World Systems Theory
Core countries exploit those on the periphery in a global economic system.
Global Development
Evaluate explanations of development and under-development put forward by dependency theorists
The plan below is just one suggestion as to how you might go about answering this essay. Briefly introduce Dependency
Global Development, Marxism
Dependency Theory
Dependency Theorists argue that rich countries accumulated their wealth through exploiting poorer countries. Initially this was through colonialism and slavery, later on through neo-colonialism. To develop, poorer countries need to break free from these exploitative relations.